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- Title
A 'Game of Patience': Fidelity and Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) (2012).
- Authors
BROWN, ALEXIS
- Abstract
The notion of 'fidelity' in adaptation studies is still contentious, though recent critical attention has renewed interest in the concept's potential usefulness. This article turns to André Bazin's essay 'Le Journal d'un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson' (1951) to describe not only a more nuanced notion of what fidelity in adaptation might look like, but also to offer an alternative sense of the field's origins, often located George Bluestone's Novels into Film (1957). To illustrate this form of fidelity in adaptation, I examine Grant Gee's Patience (After Sebald) (2012), which takes as its subject W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn (1995). By mimicking, modeling, and magnifying the effects of a careful, patient attention to Sebald's many-layered text, I argue, Gee demonstrates what Bazin might call 'the novel so to speak multiplied by film' (142).
- Subjects
NOVELS Into Film (Book); BLUESTONE, George; LOYALTY; PATIENCE: After Sebald (Film); FILM adaptations
- Publication
Adaptation, 2017, Vol 10, Issue 3, p369
- ISSN
1755-0637
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/adaptation/apx016